Chapter 8 Downstream
Because I don’t know how long it will take to go out, for the sake of safety, Liu Xiu had to carefully check what he prepared.
The bamboo raft is solid and solid, and more than 30 fish are roasted and dried and can be eaten at any time. The cold boiled water in the bamboo tube does not leak. The stone axe is a little damaged and needs to be polished. The arrows of bows and arrows are no longer sharp because of previous experiments, and they need to be polished sharply...
Little by little, Liu Xiu was busy doing the preparations seriously.
When everything was ready, he thought about it and cut off three small bamboo tubes, stuffed them with hay, pressed them tightly, ignited them, and used a smaller bamboo tube to make them smolder. In this way, he carried the fire with him and did not have to work hard to drill wood to make fire if necessary.
When doing these things, Liu Xiu was meticulous and did not want to cause unnecessary trouble to herself in the subsequent exploration work because of temporary carelessness.
After checking that there was no omission, he hung the stone axe on his waist with a rattan, carried the bamboo bow on his back, and carried the arrows on his back with a bamboo tube. The dried fish were wrapped in wide leaves and placed on the bamboo raft. He carried the fire with him. After thinking about it, he brought a pottery jar and finally pushed the bamboo raft into the water. He stepped on the bamboo raft with a twenty-meter-long bamboo pole in his hand and walked on the bamboo raft toward the exit of the lake.
The bamboo raft tried to drive at the docking position. Liu Xiu didn't know what dangers there were in the depths of the lake. He had always subconsciously felt that the depths of the lake center brought him a strong sense of crisis.
Be careful to sail the ten thousand years of ship, even if it is just a subconscious feeling, he is not ready to take risks.
The bamboo raft was driving on the lake. When it was about to approach the exit, Liu Xiu suddenly turned around and looked at the center of the lake behind him, frowned slightly. He seemed to have felt a pair of cold eyes watching him in the dark!
However, when he turned around, he saw nothing.
"The lake has not shown any abnormality over the past period of time, but the sense of crisis in my heart has always existed. What exactly is there?"
He said to himself that no matter what was there, Liu Xiu didn't think about going over and figured it out. Curiosity will kill cats. Since there is no danger in living on the shore, don't try to commit suicide.
Turning around and looking towards the exit of the lake, Liu Xiu officially took the first step to explore the world.
The exit of the lake is a wide river, about fifty meters wide, with a gentle water surface and dense vegetation on both sides of the lake. The branches of many plants have already hanged low into the water.
The coast is very quiet, as quiet as if the whole person is walking in a scroll. Even if there are insects and birds, it seems to be separated by an extremely distant distance.
Exploring the outside is an idea that Liu Xiu has always had. The reason why he chose to go downstream rather than hiking through the forest is that Liu Xiu has his own considerations. First of all, it is relatively safe to go downstream.
It is undoubtedly located on the water surface in the center of the river, which can avoid attacks from many beasts. The only thing that needs to be small is under your feet. However, the river water under your feet is relatively clear and you can see two or three meters deep. In this way, the safety factor will be greatly increased.
Again, human survival cannot be separated from water, and it is easier to find similar types when exploring along the river.
Only Liu Xiu himself can experience the loneliness when he is riding on the river with a bamboo raft.
He is a man with a firm mind and was not scared away from this feeling of loneliness. In comparison, when he was just out of school, he was in a city like a steel jungle. He walked through the streets in a quiet place in the middle of the night just to find a corner to shelter from the wind and rain. Compared to the lonely silence and desolation of the world, he was nothing now.
After almost five hours after leaving the lake, Liu Xiu went down the river. He didn't know how far he had walked. He was hungry. He asked the bamboo raft to move along the water flow, while he sat on the bamboo raft to eat.
A lonely and lonely journey is even more uncomfortable than the arrival of a crisis, but this still does not stop Liu Xiu from moving forward. Exploring the outside world. If you find a similar type, it can prove that he is not alone in this world.
Of course, such a peaceful journey also shows that Liu Xiu's choice is right, and moving along the river is relatively safe. Although I have never seen it with my own eyes during this period, Liu Xiu only heard the sound and knew that there were too many terrible beasts in the surrounding primeval forest. It should be thankful that he had not encountered those terrible guys.
However, things in the world are so careless, and you really want to come from whatever you want.
Liu Xiu, who was eating dried fish and drinking cold boiled water, felt a chill in his heart, and subconsciously looked at the shore on the left, so he stopped eating the food and immediately kept his whole body and mindful of being vigilant.
The stone axe is at your waist and can be used at any time. The bamboo bow is already in your hand, and an arrow is pointed at the other side.
On the shore nearly thirty meters away from the bamboo raft Liu Xiu was riding, a black wolf was pressing him tightly with green eyes. Facing the black wolf, Liu Xiu felt cold in his heart.
He had never seen or even imagined such a terrible wolf, and his tail body length was nearly three meters, which was like a genetic mutation!
This is the first beast in the primeval forest that appeared in Liu Xiu's sight, which is beyond his imagination.
The black wolf's claws were stern, and his mouth was opened and his two-inch long canine teeth showed. It stared at Liu Xiu's mouth drops and dripping, hoping to swallow Liu Xiu in one bite. However, the black wolf did not make any sound, like a terrible assassin trying to give Liu Xiu a fatal blow.
Looking at the black wolf's size, Liu Xiu even had an illusion that it seemed to jump up and pounce over dozens of meters at any time.
This is not the most terrifying thing. Liu Xiu thought that a wolf is a social animal. A black wolf appeared. Does it mean that there are more wolves around?
If that were the case, my life would be worrying!
In this tense atmosphere, no second wolf appeared. When Liu Xiu looked at the black wolf again, he suddenly realized.
Although the black wolf was huge, it had a thin tortoise and even retreated with a two-foot-long hideous wound. It was obvious that it was a lonely wolf abandoned by the wolves.
However, such a lonely wolf is the most terrifying. Without the protection of the tribe, it is difficult for injured lonely wolf to hunt food. In this way, once it is targeted and considered to be a target that can be hunted, it is likely to remain unstoppable!
This is true. Liu Xiu's bamboo raft was advancing along the river, while the black wolf was following him on the shore. With such a large body, his footsteps fell to the ground almost silently.
Being targeted!
Liu Xiu's heart sank to a low point. He seriously suspected that if the black wolf had not been injured, it would have pounced over long ago. It was in the middle of the river, nearly thirty meters away from the shore. This distance became Liu Xiu's lifeline.
Controlling the bamboo raft to travel in the middle of the river, Liu Xiu spent most of his attention on the black wolf, but he did not forget to pay attention to the dangers in other directions.
The black wolf couldn't get through and followed him all the time, and Liu Xiu's heart was still hanging and unable to relax.
One hour or two hours...
The black wolf followed and did not leave until it was dark.
Liu Xiu almost cursed her mother about this.
Night is not conducive to progress, but fortunately, the river level is slow, so Liu Xiu had to insert the bamboo pole into the silt at the bottom of the water to fix the bamboo raft in the middle of the river.
What is worth integrating is that the river is very deep, and Liu Xiu's bamboo pole, which is about twenty meters long, was inserted into the bottom of the water, and it was only about four meters above the water...
Liu Xiu stopped, and the black wolf on the shore also stopped. On the dark night, Liu Xiu could clearly see a pair of green eyes staring at him on the shore, so Liu Xiu did not dare to sleep.
The two sides were in such a stalemate until dawn...
Liu Xiu, who was physically and mentally exhausted, practiced the nameless health exercise on a bamboo raft in the morning to drive away his fatigue. He thought to himself that I won’t go ashore, and it depends on how long you can persevere.
When he was alert to the black wolf on the shore, Liu Xiu ate, washed his face with the river water on the side, then pulled up the bamboo pole and continued to flow down the river. The black wolf also persisted and followed the shore.
Very painful.
Liu Xiu thought that black wolf was too terrible. He couldn't help but curse because the black wolf had been following him for two days!
Liu Xiu really wants to ask the other party, aren’t you hungry?
If he asked, if Black Wolf could speak, he would definitely answer that Liu Xiu followed you because he was hungry...
Fortunately, the river has always been very smooth, and there is no obvious narrow place on both sides. Even if it is about ten meters narrow, Liu Xiu can lean slightly to the other side to maintain a distance from the black wolf, so Liu Xiu has not given the other party any chance in the past two days.
This river seemed to have no end. Liu Xiu, who was consuming with the black wolf, finally had a strange thought in his heart. It seemed that his journey was not too lonely...
Another day passed, and Liu Xiu was walking down the river and stayed on the bamboo raft for three days.
After three days, Liu Xiu had to face a helpless fact. The river seemed to have no end, but the dried fish he brought was about to finish eating. He drank the cold boiled water the day before, and he could only drink the river water to quench his thirst.
At noon on the third day, the black wolf finally couldn't afford to waste Liu Xiu. He let out an unwilling roar and limped back to the jungle with his injured hind legs.
"Haha, have you given up now?" Liu Xiu said to himself with a smile on his face as he looked at the back of the black wolf.
At this time, Liu Xiu was very happy and even more like winning the battle.
However, after being happy, a hint of loss arose in his heart. What the hell is it?
Hey, I'm still spending my feelings with that black wolf?
Shaking his head, Liu Xiu knew very well that he was too bored. He hadn't seen anyone for such a long time and no one talked to him. He was naturally a little reluctant to leave after spending three days silently with the Black Wolf.
The black wolf left, but Liu Xiu's journey continued. He knew where the end of the river was. The most important point was that Liu Xiu had to find a way to get food.
There were not many other things in the river, but there were many fish, so Liu Xiu spent half an hour using a stone axe to cut off a three-meter-long section of the pole, and spent a while to polish it sharply with a stone axe little by little, hoping to use this bamboo pole to reach the fish in the water.
Chapter completed!